100+ Best Teacher Quotes

Teachers can make such a profound impact on our lives and should be honored as heroes, I believe. Many of us owe who we are to certain teachers who appeared at just the right time, in the right place, and had just the right words to propel us on our journey. – Rainn Wilson

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school. – Victoria Kahler

Teachers open the door… You enter by yourself. – Confucius

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. – Helen Caldicott

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. – Jacques Barzun

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. – Colleen Wilcox

Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.      – Dr Ralph Tyler

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Mark Van Doren

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.      – Alexandra Trenfor

The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students. – Laurie Gray

The job of the police is to make slaves but the job of a teacher is to make leaders. – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William A. Ward

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became. – Ally Carter

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don’t care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching our children. – Shannon L. Alder

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. – K. Patricia Cross

The true teacher defends his pupils against his influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.                – Amos Bronson Alcott

There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school. – Matthew Dicks

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it. – Nicholas Sparks

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. – Aristotle

We are like children, who need masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers as guides. – Thomas Aquinas

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher. – Aaron Bacall

Best Teacher Quotes:

A genius teacher loses time with a mediocre student! A genius student experiences the same thing with a mediocre teacher! – Mehmet Murat ildan

A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own. – Charles F. Glassman

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. – Brad Henry

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. – Eliphas Levi

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your expectations. – Patricia Neal

A real teacher brings out potentials and a good teacher teaches you potential.                   – Adewale Osunsakin

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry Adams

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your mind. – Khalil Gibran

A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power. – Thomas Szasz

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann

A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. – D.Martin

A true teacher is the one who teaches you from his own experience and knowledge, not the one who tries to make you understand someone else’s experience or knowledge written down in a book. – Moustafa ELwasif

A truly special teacher is very wise and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.- Unknown

Awesome teachers recognize different abilities, take time to listen, go beyond the textbooks, and inspire from the heart! – Tanya Masse

Even where there are no schools, there are teachers. – Sharad Vivek Sagar

Everyone who remembers his education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. – Sidney Hook

Good teachers are good mentors. Great teachers are great mentors. – Lailah Gifty Akita

Great teachers answer your questions and leave you to question their answers. – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to. – Taylor Mali

I did not know of any single soul who succeeds in life without a mentorship. – Lailah Gifty Akita

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Lily Tomlin

If you have some kind of skill to survive, if dishonesty disturbs you, if you avoid evil acts, then you had very good teachers. – Amit Kalantri

If you numb pain you might ignore one of our greatest teachers. As a result, another message can be lost in translation. – Freequill

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that. – Harbhajan Singh Yogi

In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. – Jacques Barzun

Inside of every great educator is a child that needed a better teacher. – J.R.Rivera

It takes generosity to be the one teaching, and humility to be the one being taught. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Learn the art of living in the desert from a camel; learn the art of jumping from a kangaroo! The person who does the job best is also the best teacher in that job! – Mehmet Murat ildan

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. – William Osler

Teachers are the backbone of any country, the pillar upon which all aspirations are converted into realities. – Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind. –  David Levithan

Teachers put their hearts and souls into everything that they do. – Heidi McDonald

Teachers see the coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn. – Lance Conrad

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. – Helen Caldicott

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids to work together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. – Bill Gates

The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist”. – Maria Montessori

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. – Robert Breault

The best teacher is the one who teaches you how to be your teacher! – Mehmet Murat ildan

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike. – H. L. Mencken

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’. – Dan Rather

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you. – Dan Rather

The fact that you worry about being a good teacher, means that you already are one. – Jodi Picoult

The good teacher makes the poor student good and good student superior. – Marva Collins

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. – Pat Conroy

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder. – John Garrett

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. – Joyce Cary

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. – Elbert Hubbard

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise. Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. – Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

The road to freedom – here and everywhere on earth – begins in the classroom. – Hubert Humphrey

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner. – Elbert Hubbard

The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus. – Abhijit Naskar

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